Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1887-12-24
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President Tuttle of Wabash College,
while visiting Chicago, was conduct
ed over one of the finest hotels by its
proprietor, and among other rooms
was shown the one in which the bar
was located. After admiring its
magnificence he turned to his guide
and said, "You have lived in Chicago
for many years, and have seen great
deal of its rich men. Can you tell me
what has become of the sons of these
men? do not mean the exceptions
but the general rule; where are the
sons of Chicago's rich men" Upon
the answer being given that "hun-
dreds of them had gone to dogs" he
added, "Gone to the dogs, do you say?
What route did they take? Through
what gate did they pass? The low,
common saloon? No! The gate
through which they first entered was
one like this, beautiful enough for
gentleman to enter without losing the
respect of others. Would it not be
better to make such a place repulsive
in the extreme, and to keep fair
samples of what is done in these
places in full sight. Then young
mon can look on a sot who was once
a rich and bright young man, and
say, Thousands of young men have
looked as this young man did before
he entered here, and they have gone
to the dogs as he is going, and if l
enter | shall soon be there too l
am repaying your courtesy with
bluntness, but am / not rights"
Learn the ungodly character of the
license system. To throw the protec-
ton of the law around the tempter
is to form "league with death and
covenant with hell" God tempts no
man and he allows no government to
legaliZe temptation, to enrich itself
through temptation or to make the
tempter respectable under the patron
age of legal authority.
Trnoronoa opd 6ru, l. apnocc IN +b n
real causes of nearly all the misery
in the world.
Teach the poor colored man that
the drink habit is slavery-that is
what you have to do to solve the ne
gro question with him.
All the crimes ON earth do not de-
stroy so much Of the human race, MOI
ALLEVIATE so much property as intern
perance.
Men dread the cholera, the yellow
fever, and the small pox, and takt
expensive precaution against it,whilt
the ravages of all of them in a yea
do not produce the mischief that in
temperance does in month.
The sorrows and horrors of wifi
with a drunken husband, or a moth
er with drunken son, are as near tn
realization of hell as can be reaches
in this world at least.
Joseph Cook says: "Rumsellers OF
pose the temperance vote of women
/ suppose that nothing has eve
stirred the rumsellers of Chicago, St
Louis and Cincinnati quite 80 niue
as this movement to give the TEN
perance vote to women. If you wi
show me what rumsellers do nc
want, l will show you what I d
want"
The direct result of the liquor ira
fic is wickedness and violence. From
three-fourths to nine-tenths of all tn
crimes committed against societ!
either directly or indirectly sprin
from this source. Manhood destroyed
homes blighted, regulations withe
ed, characters crushed, murders don
outrages perpetrated, prisons fillet
poor houses crowded-these and mo-
than these, far more than any la
guage can express, are the work
the liquor drinker combined.
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